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To: markedman
It is time to re-evaluate celibacy in the priesthood given the genesis of the edicts to have celebate priests.

Then I presume you wish to re-evaluate Scripture, also.

St. Paul's letters are explicitly clear on the superiority of the celibate life and this is backed up by the writings of the Church fathers.

I would also imagine that it must be particularly galling to a celebrate priest who might serve in the same parish as a married priest who may have come over from the Lutherans or Episcopalians.

You mean a celibate priest?

Those who embrace celibacy and truly understand its beauty don't envy the married. Trust me. Pope John Paul called the celibate state "the finest jewel of our priesthood", or words conveying that meaning. Your comments betray a lack of understanding of the virgin state and pander to the secular stereotype of the celibate as a frustrated, lonely loser.

On the contrary, I'll bet you that there are a multitude of people who've entered the married state unthinkingly who have an enormous envy of the celibate- including a bunch on this forum.

47 posted on 10/03/2005 1:48:00 PM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow
Then I certainly hope you are living that superior celibate life. Or are you one of those do as I say not as I do kind of folk?

"On the contrary, I'll bet you that there are a multitude of people who've entered the married state unthinkingly who have an enormous envy of the celibate- including a bunch on this forum."

You are one sick hombre or is that hombrette?
50 posted on 10/03/2005 2:37:34 PM PDT by markedman (Islam = surrender, and we will NEVER surrender!)
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